Here's a halloween shot for ya

[garote]

This girl has a huge web spun between the garden and the branches of the plum tree in our backyard. She hung patiently in the center of it while I set the camera up about 10 inches from her, and lined up the moon in the background.

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[http://users.livejournal.com/_ofuda_/]

EEEEEEEK.

*has nightmares*

[garote]

awwwwwwwwww

Worry not! 'Orb weaving' spiders are very timid, and very reluctant to bite. If disturbed, their first response is to scramble up into the tree and abandon the web. Symptoms from a bite are usually "negligible or mild local pain, numbness and swelling. Occasionally nausea and dizziness can occur."

BTW, just yesterday I was reading IMDB and I figured out what your last livejournal name was all about - Nineveh is one of the capitals of ancient Assyria, which the bridgekeeper asks about in Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Ah hah!!!!!!!

[thegoodreverend.livejournal.com]

Silly Garote. Logic isn't always an effective means of anxiety and phobia treatment =)

That's a great picture. We've got some amazing spiders in the few plants in our garden, including some like that. Much more noble than the roaches...

[garote]

Roaches, ARRRR !!!!!!!!!!! Hoo-hah

Yeah, phobias vs. logic is not a very good matchup.

[garote]

Oh wait - my bad - it wasn't your livejournal name, it was a different name ... drat these online services, so complex I could just pinch them

[lutin.livejournal.com]

neat!

[garote]

heeheeeeeeeeeeeee!

[penguin-boy.livejournal.com]

THIS IS THE SECOND POST ON MY FRIENDS PAGE OF BIG SPIDERS STOP IT ;_;

[garote]

Heh. My bad :)

[bridgetyone.livejournal.com]

who the hell are you?

[garote]

A browser of this.

[ex-zeugma416.livejournal.com]

Not two hours ago, while crossing the floor of a bar in Atlanta, Georgia, Scotch in hand, on my way to a cocktail table, I had to stop to let one of the largest spiders I had ever seen cross my path and go on his way, I guess also to the bar. (??!?!?!!) I'm sure he was fixin' for a drink. It was easily just as big as those spiders we used to get from the redwood forest around where you and I lived. I wondered where it came from, especially since the bar was in the middle of the city...

[garote]

Bwahahaaaa -- you know who would enjoy that scene, is Tim Burton >:)

[rewind-eden.livejournal.com]

Interesting shot - I like it. ^_^